...the southern slave plantation bourgeoisie kicking and screaming into industrial capitalism.
The slave economy was a drag on the more developed form of capitalism that was about to revolutionise the world. Everything else is just window dressing and fancy speeches.
For sure, and of course John Brown did nothing wrong
I mean, he didn't shoot that fucking snitch, take Harpers Ferry, and ride across the South on a tide of blood and terror, at the head of a Liberation army.